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qemu-img create backing disk

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Write /home/player/mkdisk.sh: a bash script that uses qemu-img create to make an overlay. Create a qcow2 image named overlay.qcow2 of size 20G that uses base.qcow2 as its backing file (qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b base.qcow2 -F qcow2 overlay.qcow2 20G). (Authored config, graded structurally - the engine isn't run here.) (Authored config, graded structurally — the engine isn't run here.)

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